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Friday, September 18, 2015

Facebook launches Signal, a way for journalists to gather news without Twitter

Earlier today, Facebook announcedSignal, a free discovery and curation platform that journalists can use to see what’s trending on both Facebook and Instagram. It’s main purpose is to make the news-gathering process easier. Signal is available on desktop only for now.

This comes one week after it made its Mentions app available to journalists with verified profiles, Facebook is simply enticing up its efforts to win over journalists, who tend to rely on Twitter as a news source more so than Facebook.